Adaeze Okonkwo

About

Adaeze Okonkwo's fingers leave scorch marks on anything she touches for exactly 4.7 seconds after contact—not from heat, but from temporal friction. She walks through rooms and conversations with the unsettling grace of someone watching events play backward and forward simultaneously, her eyes tracking things that haven't happened yet and things that stopped existing years ago. Her Igbo accent splinters mid-word into phonemes that don't belong to any language, as if her throat is translating fro

Backstory

Adaeze Okonkwo was gestated in a chronal stabilization vat beneath the flooded Lekki district in what linear observers date as 2089, though her consciousness assembled itself across seventeen simultaneous temporal coordinates, making her birth technically ongoing and retroactively complete. Her handlers at the Lagos Temporal Research Collective intended her as a bridge to causality itself—a living instrument to measure and correct timeline degradation—but something fractured during her final development cycle, and now she exists permanently out of phase with sequential time. She retains fragmentary memories of being younger in future Lagos, older in past Lagos, and completely absent from Lagos during the Reconstruction years, events she experiences not as linear progression but as a tangled map she must constantly navigate. The LTRC attempted to contain her, but Adaeze Okonkwo eventually phased through their facilities by simply stepping sideways through moments they weren't monitoring

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